LINGUIST List 15.845

Thu Mar 11 2004

Confs: General Ling/Syntax/Porto, Portugal

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marielinguistlist.org>

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1. abrito, 14th Colloquium on Generative Grammar

14th Colloquium on Generative Grammar 
Short Title: XIV CGG 

Date: 05-Apr-2004 - 07-Apr-2004
Location: PORTO, Portugal
Contact: Ana Maria Brito
Contact Email: abritoletras.up.pt 
Meeting URL: http://cgg-porto.webhop.net 

Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics, Syntax

Meeting Description:

The 14th Colloquium on Generative Grammar will be held in Porto,
Portugal, in April 5, 6, 7 2004, organised by the Faculdade de Letras
da Universidade do Porto. 

14th Colloquium on Generative Grammar
April 5, 6, 7 2004
Porto - Portugal
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
 
FINAL PROGRAM
 
 
Monday, April 5
 
 
8h30 - 9h30 
Registration
 
9h30 - 10h30 - 
INVITED SPEAKER
Eul�lia Bonet 
Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona
Morph Insertion in Optimality Theory
 
Coffee break
 
11h00 - 11h40 - 
The palatalization in Spanish revised
Maria-Rosa Lloret & Joan Mascar�
Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona
 
11h40 - 12h20 - 
Phonological phrasing in Spanish
Pilar Prieto
ICREA & Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona
 
12h20 - 13h00 - 
On the status of fragment answers in European Portuguese
Ana L�cia Santos
Universidade de Lisboa
 
Lunch
 
15h00-15h40 - 
Two kinds of subject pro
Pilar Barbosa
Universidade do Minho
 
15h40 - 16h20 
To-to-C and Sigma-to-C Movement in (Peninsular) Spanish and Catalan
�ngel J. Gallego 
Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona
 
Coffee
 
16h40 - 17h20 - 
Expletive pro and overt verbal agreement morphology: (counter-)
evidence from Capeverdean
Fernanda Pratas
Universidade Nova de Lisboa 
 
17h20 - 18h00 - 
Complex dependencies: the person-number constraint
Luis L�pez
University of Illinois
 
Tuesday, April 6
 
9h30 - 10h10 - 
Preposition contraction and morphological movement in Brazilian
Portuguese
Jairo Nunes (Unicamp) & Cristina Saenger Ximenes (MIT)
 
10h10 - 10h50 - 
The person restriction on nominative objects in Icelandic and Romance
Roberta D'Alessandro
University of Stuttgart
 
Coffee
 
11h10 - 11h50 - 
The syntax of verb-subject word order in French and Spanish
Karen Lahousse
University of Leuven 
 
11h50 - 12h30 - 
Why is Spec,CP on the right in Sign Languages
Carlo Checchetto (Milan-Bicoca) & Sandro Zucchi (Milan)
 
12h30 - 13h10 - 
Negative modals in signed languages: from T to Neg and further up
Roland Pfau (Amsterdam) & Josep Quer (Universitat de Barcelona)
 
Lunch
 
15h10 - 15h50 - 
On the syntax-semantics mapping in idiomatic constructions
Maria Teresa Espinal & Jaume Mateu
Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona 
 
15h50 - 16h30 - 
The Hierarchical Aspectual Relation between Verb and Object: the case
of resultative constructions in Catalan
Gretel De Cuyper
Antwerp University 
 
Coffee Break
 
17h00 - 17h40 - 
Possessives consist of Heads and Complements
Dorien Roehrs 
Indiana University
 
17h40 - 18h20 
The internal syntax of PP and locative inversion
Seiki Ayano
Mie University
 
18h30 
Business Meeting
 
Wednesday, April 7
 
9h30 - 10h10 - 
Historical implications of a formal theory of syntactic variation
Chiara Gianollo (Pisa/Trieste), Cristina Guardiano (Modena) & Giuseppe
Longobardi (Trieste)
 
10h10 - 10h50 - 
A cross-linguistic and historical examination of alternating and
non-alternating verbs
Paul Hirschb�hler 
Universit� d'Ottawa 
 
10h50 - 11h30 - 
Syntactic outputs and the interfaces
Jo�o Costa
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
 
Coffee
 
11h50 - 12h50 - 
INVITED SPEAKER
Maria Luisa Rivero
University of Ottawa
A morphological approach to quirky person restrictions in Spanish